TYD2 Tour Journal: Montgomery
Posted - January 29, 2016
Yesterday, I drove a couple of hours down to Montgomery to deliver my 3rd talk on the tour. It was a small but engaged group of Tableau users (15-20 people). Montgomery has been the site of significant historical events so I left a little early and spent an hour walking around Dexter Avenue. This is the ...
Read More »TYD2 Tour Journal: Houston
Posted - January 27, 2016
My second talk on the Tableau Your Data! 2nd Edition tour was in Houston at BMC Software’s impressive facility. Corresponding with this date was the official availability of the book on Amazon’s website!
I want to thank Robert Hanley, Director of Finance at BMC Software, for sponsoring the Tableau user group in Houston and providing a ...
Read More »‘Tableau Your Data! 2nd Edition’ Now Available!
Posted - January 25, 2016
Hot off the presses, the 2nd edition of Tableau Your Data! is now officially available for purchase on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! This latest edition comes in response to nearly two years of major improvements to Tableau’s already dynamic toolset. With over 150 pages of new content as well as significant updates and revisions ...
Read More »TYD2 Tour Journal: Minneapolis
Posted - January 22, 2016
Dan shares his thoughts from the Minneapolis stop on the Tableau Your Data! 2nd Edition book tour.
The Tableau Your Data! 2nd Edition book tour got started yesterday at Cargill HQ in Hopkins, Minnesota. Cargill is the largest privately-owned company in the world with revenues exceeding $120 billion, and they have over 150,000 employees scattered across ...
Read More »Dan Talks ‘Tableau Your Data! 2nd Edition’ on the ‘Tableau Wanna Be’ Podcast
Posted - January 20, 2016
Just recently, Dan Murray was featured on the hit “Tableau Wanna Be” podcast hosted by Matt Francis and Emily Todd Kund. This is the second time that Dan has been on the podcast, and this time, he focuses primarily on details surrounding Tableau Your Data! 2nd Edition. Specifically, the conversation covers:
InterWorks’ Tableau Partner of the Year awards
What’s ...
Read More »Letter from the Author – 2nd Edition
Posted - January 19, 2016
The 2nd edition of Tableau Your Data! required over 1,000 hours of research and writing. More than 500 new visualizations were created using the OS X and Windows versions of Tableau. Writing this update was a considerable amount of work.
Writing a book is a lot of work. Writing an update to a book on Tableau ...
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